In the "Falling Walls" conference in Berlin, researchers from possible scientific breakthroughs of the future. The lectures on the problems of humanity came from different disciplines were allowed, but all take just 15 minutes.
There must be grinning even the Chancellor: When Angela Merkel (CDU), their speech at the scientific conference "Falling Walls" on 9 End of November in Berlin, has presented its conference initiator Sebastian Turner a hammer. He should help Merkel, tear down the proverbial walls that bear the title of the event in its name. Meant, however, these particular scientific breakthroughs: the third time were researchers loaded from all over the globe and across all disciplines, to talk about her pioneering work - true to the motto of the day "What walls fall as the next - and how they will change our lives ? "
Musical big bang
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Sebastian Turner, creator of "Falling Walls" conferenceThat "Falling Walls" it differs from other conferences is already evident in the structure of the meeting: All 20 researchers have only 15 minutes to present their topics. Fifteen minutes after the end of a clearly audible cough sounds from a tape - much to the amusement of the audience. Is not impressed the speaker being a "C'mon!" Echoes through the hall. Also benefits the measure anything, climb a young man "with an impressive body mass index," said Sebastian Turner, the stage to the speaker gently but firmly from the desk to escort.
Hidden cymbals in the room: chemist Jean-Luc LehnerBut the researchers presenting itself can be a few ideas to present their topics clearly and entertaining. Sun physicist Jean-Luc Lehner from the Albert Einstein Institute in Golm has ten seats in the hall hidden cymbals. His specialist subject is the origin of the universe. The instruments are illustrative. First, lets Lehner's only one of the visitors to hit a cymbal - that was the Big Bang, as it would take up the current research. Then, all ten instruments are struck: How was the universe created, according to string theory. Namely, not a single big bang, but with different concurrent Big Bang. Lehner for this theory is more plausible, but it also leads to the question, what was before this big bang: "And no one knows yet."
Energy in the sugar
Sugar for the audience: Chemist Robert SchlöglWhile Lehner's hidden musical instruments, distributed the chemist Robert Schlögl, director of the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, sugar pieces to the audience with an invitation to eat them. He wants to clarify his research: He works for the (chemical), storage of energy: Just as the audience had just taken power in the form of sugars that are then stored in the body, it would also work in nature. It focuses on the energy of the sun Schlögl: He wants to enable a global energy system based entirely on their power. The problem is the storage of this energy. Were missing opportunities to save them cost and low loss.
In times of finite fossil fuels Schlögl is highly topical with his research - just as the American chemist Paul Chirik which operates in Princeton "modern alchemy," as he says himself. Specifically, it is Chirik about missing out on all normal functions of iron platinum. The expensive noble metal is used in various areas, in agriculture as well as in mobile phone production.
Happy citizens than target
Business Psychologist Elke U. Weber explores human behavior.A completely different topic, it is the New York Professor Elke U. Weber. The German economy psychologist conducts research on behavior and the ways to change this - whether to save or to feed more energy conscious. Weber stresses that the changes people are traditionally difficult to vary, depending on your personal "choice architecture". It was important to bring to the policy or the state, the citizens of such changes to a positive close, and offer options. As an example, Weber calls the different national approach to organ donation: As we explain in Germany as had to be organ donors, such as in Austria, all people are automatically potential organ donors unless they indicate that not to want. The number of organ donations in the neighboring country is much higher - for Weber a proof that the state can change by a different approach to behavioral options.
Changes also the British economist Stewart Wallis in mind: he believes that the current economics - incorrect use indicators to measure growth - even in the face of financial crisis. One should not only look after the economic growth of a state, but must also allow social growth and well-being of citizens included in indicators. In this sense, a good economy, social justice, individual well-being of high and sustainable economy must have the focus. What looks at first glance to-gooder utopian slogans is, in fact received. HOWEVER MAKES advise the British government of Valais.
Dealing with the flood of data
Aaron Ciechanover believes in a new era of medicine.Trying to find new categories to capture an accelerating world, is expressed in quite different presentations of the "Falling Walls" conference. Thus, the computer scientist Anastasia Ailamaki employed by the Polytechnic in Lausanne with the increasing amount of data. Every 18 months, would double the computing power of the computer, she explains. Even more impressive is because only the growth of data volume that would result in any computer operation. "I think it's great that we can generate so much data, but it would be better if we could handle it well so that they can benefit mankind," the computer scientist. Ailamaki research in collaboration with all other disciplines on new algorithms that can work in parallel and so should be better able to process huge amounts of data and make them usable.
The processing of large amounts of data would also be easier for the Israeli medical-Nobel laureate Aaron Ciechanover. On the basis of individual DNA could then each get a customized treatment: he searches for the future of medicine and believe that we stand before the era of personalized medicine. But this would have to find ways to create DNA profiles inexpensively - and in an ethically responsible action catalog for dealing with these profiles are found. At one point, Ciechanover is certain: "The pharmaceutical companies will have to rethink, because the times of major blockbuster drugs are over."
Anticipation and optimismNatural and social sciences, Big Bang and Organ Donation: The "Falling Walls" conference was in 2011 with their subjects as diverse insights and a challenge for the audience. At the same time but she exuded optimism and anticipation for the "collapsing walls" that await us in the future in science.
There must be grinning even the Chancellor: When Angela Merkel (CDU), their speech at the scientific conference "Falling Walls" on 9 End of November in Berlin, has presented its conference initiator Sebastian Turner a hammer. He should help Merkel, tear down the proverbial walls that bear the title of the event in its name. Meant, however, these particular scientific breakthroughs: the third time were researchers loaded from all over the globe and across all disciplines, to talk about her pioneering work - true to the motto of the day "What walls fall as the next - and how they will change our lives ? "
Musical big bang
tripod article
sosblog article
Sebastian Turner, creator of "Falling Walls" conferenceThat "Falling Walls" it differs from other conferences is already evident in the structure of the meeting: All 20 researchers have only 15 minutes to present their topics. Fifteen minutes after the end of a clearly audible cough sounds from a tape - much to the amusement of the audience. Is not impressed the speaker being a "C'mon!" Echoes through the hall. Also benefits the measure anything, climb a young man "with an impressive body mass index," said Sebastian Turner, the stage to the speaker gently but firmly from the desk to escort.
Hidden cymbals in the room: chemist Jean-Luc LehnerBut the researchers presenting itself can be a few ideas to present their topics clearly and entertaining. Sun physicist Jean-Luc Lehner from the Albert Einstein Institute in Golm has ten seats in the hall hidden cymbals. His specialist subject is the origin of the universe. The instruments are illustrative. First, lets Lehner's only one of the visitors to hit a cymbal - that was the Big Bang, as it would take up the current research. Then, all ten instruments are struck: How was the universe created, according to string theory. Namely, not a single big bang, but with different concurrent Big Bang. Lehner for this theory is more plausible, but it also leads to the question, what was before this big bang: "And no one knows yet."
Energy in the sugar
Sugar for the audience: Chemist Robert SchlöglWhile Lehner's hidden musical instruments, distributed the chemist Robert Schlögl, director of the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, sugar pieces to the audience with an invitation to eat them. He wants to clarify his research: He works for the (chemical), storage of energy: Just as the audience had just taken power in the form of sugars that are then stored in the body, it would also work in nature. It focuses on the energy of the sun Schlögl: He wants to enable a global energy system based entirely on their power. The problem is the storage of this energy. Were missing opportunities to save them cost and low loss.
In times of finite fossil fuels Schlögl is highly topical with his research - just as the American chemist Paul Chirik which operates in Princeton "modern alchemy," as he says himself. Specifically, it is Chirik about missing out on all normal functions of iron platinum. The expensive noble metal is used in various areas, in agriculture as well as in mobile phone production.
Happy citizens than target
Business Psychologist Elke U. Weber explores human behavior.A completely different topic, it is the New York Professor Elke U. Weber. The German economy psychologist conducts research on behavior and the ways to change this - whether to save or to feed more energy conscious. Weber stresses that the changes people are traditionally difficult to vary, depending on your personal "choice architecture". It was important to bring to the policy or the state, the citizens of such changes to a positive close, and offer options. As an example, Weber calls the different national approach to organ donation: As we explain in Germany as had to be organ donors, such as in Austria, all people are automatically potential organ donors unless they indicate that not to want. The number of organ donations in the neighboring country is much higher - for Weber a proof that the state can change by a different approach to behavioral options.
Changes also the British economist Stewart Wallis in mind: he believes that the current economics - incorrect use indicators to measure growth - even in the face of financial crisis. One should not only look after the economic growth of a state, but must also allow social growth and well-being of citizens included in indicators. In this sense, a good economy, social justice, individual well-being of high and sustainable economy must have the focus. What looks at first glance to-gooder utopian slogans is, in fact received. HOWEVER MAKES advise the British government of Valais.
Dealing with the flood of data
Aaron Ciechanover believes in a new era of medicine.Trying to find new categories to capture an accelerating world, is expressed in quite different presentations of the "Falling Walls" conference. Thus, the computer scientist Anastasia Ailamaki employed by the Polytechnic in Lausanne with the increasing amount of data. Every 18 months, would double the computing power of the computer, she explains. Even more impressive is because only the growth of data volume that would result in any computer operation. "I think it's great that we can generate so much data, but it would be better if we could handle it well so that they can benefit mankind," the computer scientist. Ailamaki research in collaboration with all other disciplines on new algorithms that can work in parallel and so should be better able to process huge amounts of data and make them usable.
The processing of large amounts of data would also be easier for the Israeli medical-Nobel laureate Aaron Ciechanover. On the basis of individual DNA could then each get a customized treatment: he searches for the future of medicine and believe that we stand before the era of personalized medicine. But this would have to find ways to create DNA profiles inexpensively - and in an ethically responsible action catalog for dealing with these profiles are found. At one point, Ciechanover is certain: "The pharmaceutical companies will have to rethink, because the times of major blockbuster drugs are over."
Anticipation and optimismNatural and social sciences, Big Bang and Organ Donation: The "Falling Walls" conference was in 2011 with their subjects as diverse insights and a challenge for the audience. At the same time but she exuded optimism and anticipation for the "collapsing walls" that await us in the future in science.
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